Mars’ atmosphere is incredibly thin, only 1% of the atmospheric volume of earth, so getting a helicopter to fly in its thin air would be a very big deal.

Stanford researchers in collaboration with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, have developed a nearly completely autonomous system to explore the Martian Moon Prohos. The system consists of a...

The Pentagon's Office of Training and Readiness Strategy's Advanced Distributed Learning laboratory worked with Lockheed Martin's Mission Systems and Training and US Ignite to create a platform for distributed, immersive training...

China is planning to send a space probe, a lander and an orbiter to Mars in 2020.

NASA’s Ingenuity Mars helicopter is set to attempt the first powered flight on another planet

Desert Research And Technology Studies (D-R.A.T.S) kicks off an exciting new year of field testing. The crew is back in action, testing communication scenarios for near-Earth asteroids, and 2 new instruments from Goddard: ExPED and...

After a 300 million mile journey through space, the Mars Perseverance Rover is ready to begin the most challenging part of the trip, landing on the red planet. If successful, it will embark on the most advanced mission ever sent here, to...

Japan's rovers that successfully landed on an asteroid have sent back their first images.

The Mars chamber is a box--about the size of a refrigerator--that re-creates the temperatures, pressures, and atmosphere of the Martian surface, essentially creating a Mars environment on Earth!



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In part 5, Dr. Garvin conveys the amazing past successes of robotic explorations on Mars and what we have to look forward to with the upcoming Mars Science Lab, also known as the Curiosity rover.



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This classic lullaby for babies is great for children to listen to as they get ready to go to sleep. With soothing animations and a beautiful, calm singer, this is one of the best lullabies to help kids fall asleep. Older kids like...

Since arriving at Mars in 2012, NASA's Curiosity rover has drilled into rocks in search of organics - molecules containing carbon. Organics are the building blocks of all life on Earth, though they can also...

Mike Mumma and his team of researchers at Goddard Space Flight Center have made the first definitive observations of methane in the atmosphere of Mars. The evidence of methane plumes only during certain seasons and the chemical processes...

NASA's Curiosity rover analyzed its first solid sample of Mars with a variety of instruments, including the Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) instrument suite. Developed at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., SAM is a...

Listen closely to new sounds from Mars recorded by NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover, including puffs and pings from a rover tool, light Martian wind, the whirring of the agency's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter, and laser zaps. Most of...

The visualization shows the landing sites of all six NASA spacecraft to reach Mars—Viking 1, Viking 2, Pathfinder, Spirit, Opportunity, Phoenix—and the target location where Curiosity will touch down on August 6, 2012....

Meet Jim Rice, an astrogeologist whose work has taken him to every continent on the globe. Among the many activities he does as part of his work at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, some of Dr. Rice's favorites include participating in...

As part of NASA’s preparation for next year’s Mars mission, the Mars 2020 rover took its first driving test at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California on December 17. <br/>

Tucked inside the Curiosity rover is a miniature chemistry lab designed to unlock the secrets of Mars. Principal Investigator Paul Mahaffy, Deputy Principal Investigator Pamela Conrad, and MSL Participating Scientist Jennifer...

NASA is ready to test a new student-designed rover at the Summit Camp in Greenland, a research station sitting on a two-mile thick sheet of ice. The Goddard Remotely Operated Vehicle for Exploration and Research, or GROVER, carries...

The strange shape seen in the Martian horizon moments after the Curiosity Mars rover landed was a dust cloud kicked up by the crash-landing of the Mars rover's Skycrane descent stage, NASA announced on Saturday. About 40 seconds after...

This video provides a brief history of cycling, from its origins in the 19th century to its current popularity as a mode of transportation, sport, and recreation. It highlights the evolution of bicycles and the impact they have had on...

NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover is using its self-driving capabilities as it treks across Jezero Crater seeking signs of ancient life and gathering rock and soil samples for planned return to Earth.



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NASA's LROC has been imaging the surface of the Moon since 2009. What has it discovered about the Moon's craters?